Comprehensive information about Aristophanes including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Aristophanes (c. 448-385 b.c.), the great comic dramatist and poet of Athens. His birth-year is uncertain. He is known to have been about the same age as Eupolis, and is said to have been “almost a boy” when his first comedy (The Banqueters) was brought out in 427 b.c. This educational Aristophanes resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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Articles about Aristophanes or articles that mention Aristophanes.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. Go to Quote / Comment
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. Go to Quote / Comment
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . Go to Quote / Comment
The wise learn many things from their enemies. Go to Quote / Comment
Wise men learn many things from their enemies. Go to Quote / Comment